SPATIAL CORRELATIONS OF POPULATION AND ECOLOGICAL FACTORS WITH DISTRIBUTION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS CASES IN SOUTHWESTERN IRAN

Spatial correlations of population and ecological factors with distribution of visceral leishmaniasis cases in southwestern Iran

Background & objectives: Leishmaniasis as a dynamic disease may be markedly influenced by demographic and ecological factors.A geospatial information system study was developed to determine the distribution of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases in relation to population, climatic and environmental factors in Fars province, southwest of Iran.Methods:

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Should cancer pain still be considered a separate category alongside acute pain and chronic non-cancer pain? Reflections on ICD-11

IntroductionTraditionally, cancer pain has often been viewed as an independent third major category in pain medicine alongside acute pain and chronic non-cancer pain.However, the new chronic pain category MG30 in the eleventh version of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) includes cancer-related pain as one of its seven subgroups.In l

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Institutions of Russian-Japanese Economic Cooperation

Russian-Japanese economic cooperation has a rather interesting and informative history, but it is based mainly on primary energy resources trade, which Japan needs probably more than any other country in North East Asia.It is not surprising that the Russian mining sector attracts the dominant share of Japanese investment, and this area can be consi

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